The Horrific Mass Rape of German Women at the End of World War II

The greatest mass rape in history — the liberators raped over 2 million women

Peter Preskar
Lessons from History
6 min readJun 9, 2021

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Unknown German woman in Czechoslovakia in 1945 (Screenshot from youtube.com)

Throughout history, rape was a way to show dominance over defeated enemies. Women of the defeated opponents were treated as spoils of war. The winners raped them after they had killed their sons, husbands, and fathers.

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